Quotes about Perception

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. Since

You all right?" She looked up to find William Barnett watching her from the back door. "I'm fine. Why do you ask?" "It looked like you were scowling. I figured either you were thinking of me or something was wrong.

The fundamental attribution error is simply this: human beings tend to falsely attribute the negative behaviors of others to their character (an internal attribution), while they attribute their own negative behaviors to their environment (an external attribution).

give the situation an opportunity to work itself out before reacting. Many times these situations resolve themselves or aren't quite as urgent as he perceives, but before you know it, he's heightened the intensity with a flurry of messages.

Sounds crazy and counterintuitive, I know, but it is true.

You might find contradictory taboos. In one culture it might seem shocking to think x, while in another it was shocking not to. But I think usually the shock is on one side. In one culture x is ok, and in another it's considered shocking. My hypothesis is that the side that's shocked is most likely to be the mistaken one.

In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something they thought ugly.

Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable.

Lack of empathy is associated with intelligence, to the point that there is even something of a fashion for it in some places.

If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on.

When you're in love, you're capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.